Evidence from multiple gene seqeunces indicates that termites evolved from wood-feeding cockroaches

Current Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 801-804

  Lo, Nathan ^a   Tokuda, Gaku ^b   Watanabe, Hirofumi ^b   Rose, Harley ^a   Slaytor, Michael ^a   Maekawa, Kiyoto ^c   Bandi, Claudio ^d   Noda, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BLATTARIA; CRYPTOCERCUS; DICTYOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; MANTODEA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0034729653     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00561-3     Document Type: Article

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